DigiTip 62: Perfect Presenting with PowerPoint Presenter Coach ⏱️

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Do you want to perfect your presenting skills before your next big presentation? With DigiTip 62 and PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach you can get feedback while you practice! Simply follow these steps: 

  1. In your PowerPoint go to ‘Slide Show’ then ‘Rehearse with Coach’. 
  1. Run through your presentation as usual  
  1. Once finished – receive your personalised feedback summary of statistics on what you did well and how you can improve! 

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Tick and Go: Your Guide to ‘To Do List’ Apps ✅ 

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As exam season approaches, it can become difficult to stay on top of every task, and it can become overwhelming with everything that needs to be done. With this blogpost, we’ll introduce four different To Do List apps to help you manage your workload and organise your days.  

Microsoft To Do 

Microsoft To Do is a planner app provided by Microsoft and as such is an app you can have on your phone that is also linked to your Teams. You can also access Microsoft To Do through the ‘Planner’ option on your desktop Teams. Some of the key features of Microsoft To Do is ‘My Day’ where you can arrange all the tasks you need to complete for the day but also ‘Planned’ where you can set due dates for future tasks. If you have chosen to link Microsoft To Do to your Teams account under ‘Assigned to me’ you will be able to view all tasks assigned to you through Teams channels task boards which can be helpful for group projects. There is also the feature to create new lists such as if you want a specific to do list for all tasks that need to be created for a project.  

Todoist 

With Todoist you can create and view your daily tasks while also creating and viewing upcoming tasks with deadlines. You have the option of setting recurring tasks such as drinking water everyday with the choice of setting different levels of priority to each task to help with prioritisation. The app also has a notification reminder option for tasks that you have either not completed or reminders for upcoming tasks that you have set in advance.   

Lists To Do 

Lists To Do is a basic To Do List app that is best for tasks within a task for example, items needed within a grocery list or items that need to be packed. Lists can be given emojis to help with differentiation. You can also create as many different lists as you would like as well as duplicating lists! This app also has the option to sort lists in alphabetical order or manually.  

Structured – Daily Planner 

Structured – Daily Planner is more focused on individual tasks you need to complete within each day. There are two main areas on this app, the first being ‘inbox’. The ‘inbox’ allows you to add quick thoughts and tasks where you can later add them to your ‘timeline’. Your ‘timeline’ displays your planned out day from when you wake up to when you need to start winding down! You can tick off your tasks as you go and this app also has the option to colour code tasks and automatically adds emojis based on your task.  

DigiTips are returning next week! 📢

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Since September 2023, the Digital Skills Team have been publishing weekly tips and tricks to help improve your Digital Skills one DigiTip at a time. So far, we’ve published 60 DigiTips from Microsoft shortcuts to digital wellbeing app suggestions!

We’ll be returning next week on Tuesday 29 April with a further 5 DigiTips, if you want to go back and look at previous DigiTips you can read them all from this webpage.

How can I follow the DigiTips?

If you want to keep up weekly with our DigiTips, there are a couple of different ways you can follow our DigiTips.

  1. You can bookmark this webpage and a new DigiTip will appear here at 10am each Tuesday during term time (Read DigiTip 1 if you’re unsure how to bookmark a webpage).
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  3. We also publish each DigiTip on Facebook and Instagram pages which you can access from the icons below. From there, you can follow our hashtags #TipiauDigiPA #AUDigiTips

DigiTip 60: Power up your PowerPoint! ⚡

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Have you ever struggled with presenting your PowerPoint online through sharing your screen? Did you know that you can present directly from PowerPoint to Teams? With DigiTip 60 – now you do! 

When you’re in your meeting and ready to share your slides – simply select the “present in Teams” button in your PowerPoint and present! 

View the short video below to see how easy it is: 

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DigiTip 59: Remember to Stay hydrated with the My Water 💧

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Forgetting to stay hydrated while at Uni or work? This DigiTip is for you. Staying hydrated is a major part of wellbeing as it influences how much energy you have and helps you to stay focussed. 

My Water has a free version which will send you notifications at set intervals reminding you to drink to reach your goal for the day. Alongside this you are also given statistics based on how you are doing for the week with your water intake. There’s also an Achievements page that shows what milestones you’ve hit and how to achieve more. When reporting what you have drank on the free version you are given the option of selecting water, coffee or tea which will return different amounts to your water progress based on the water balance of the drink. 

Below are some screenshots from the app that show some of these features. 

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DigiTip 58: Take Ctrl of your Headings in Word ⌨️

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Sometimes, it can be a pain swapping from different headings in Word but with DigiTip 58 it doesn’t have to be a pain anymore!  

Use the simple shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + S to easily swap between all the different heading styles available in Word.

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International Day of Forests 🌲

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Today – 21st March 2025 – is International Day of Forests and to celebrate we’re revisiting all our blogposts and DigiTips related to nature! 

  1. Plant your Productivity with the Flora app! 🌼: Available on iOS and Android, Flora is an interactive productivity app where you can store to-do lists and build positive habits.
  2. DigiTip 40: Get More Connected to Nature with Seek by iNaturalist 🔎🌼: You may come across birds, plants, fungi, and amphibians that you can’t identify. Using image recognition technology, the Seek by iNaturalist app will help you take your knowledge of nature to the next level! 
  3. Nature at your fingertips: My favourite apps for exploring the outdoors 🍃🌻: To enhance your outdoor adventures, I’ve compiled a list of my favourite free apps that will hopefully spark your curiosity and deepen your appreciation for nature.
  4. DigiTip 4 – Increase your productivity whilst helping the planet with the Forest App 🌱: Do you want to increase your productivity whilst helping the planet? The Forest App will help reduce your procrastination and distractions whilst giving you the extra incentive to stay productive, by growing trees and earning virtual coins to unlock new plants depending on how long you have stayed productive for.

DigiTip 57: Counting Specific Data in Excel 🔢

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Wanted to count how many times a name appears in a column alongside other conditions in Excel? With DigiTip 57 we can show you the formula to get this done. 

First you will need data similar to that shown in the screenshot where you have multiple columns of information where you want to count how much of a certain criteria exists such as names or dates for example. 

To do this we are going to need to use the COUNTIFS function in the formula tab, this is shown in the screenshot below.  

This takes the criteria range which in the example is the column of names and then the criteria itself which in the example would be the name Chris at E2. Also include in the example is another criteria range of the column of gifts and the criteria of Chocolate. This will then go through all the information and count only when these two criteria are met.  

This could be useful on a larger scale for tracking any number of things that are happening on a spreadsheet. 

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